heid {languageR}R Documentation

Lexical decision latencies for words ending in -heid

Description

A simplified version of the primingHeid dataset.

Usage

data(heid)

Format

A data frame with 832 observations on the following 4 variables.

Subject
a factor with subjects as levels.
Word
a factor with words as levels.
RT
a numeric vector with logarithmically transformed reaction times in visual lexical decision.
BaseFrequency
a numeric vector with the logarithmically transformed frequency of the base adjective of the word with the suffix -heid.

References

De Vaan, L., Schreuder, R. and Baayen, R. H. (2007) Regular morphologically complex neologisms leave detectable traces in the mental lexicon, The Mental Lexicon, 2, in press.

Examples

data(heid)
heid = aggregate(heid$RT, list(heid$Word, heid$BaseFrequency), mean)
colnames(heid) = c("Word", "BaseFrequency", "MeanRT")

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